This weekend, anybody famous who isn't on the Mall with John Stewart and Stephen Colbert will be in Connecticut instead. Or maybe both places at once. Glenn Beck will be in West Hartford. Barack Obama will go through Bridgeport. And Bill Clinton will visit the University of Hartford.

There's a lot to talk about on The Nose today. Yes, there's Stewart's rally. Charlie Sheen's rampage. (How come he gets so many second third and fourth chances ... ) Talking Points Memo, a national political blog, suggested actors who could play some of the roles in the 2010 election season. For McMahon and Blumenthal? Helen Mirren and Crispin Glover. We think we can do better. Can you?

New research suggests that people are happy if they have sisters. And we're just getting warmed up.